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John F Kennedy first memorial in Dallas
The 22nd November 2013 marks the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy. The city of Dallas has announced that the day the 35th American President was killed in 1963 will be remembered with an official memorial. Kennedy was killed as his motorcade drove through Delaney Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
“This is an event to [...]
By Joshua Dean | Notebook, The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 22 November 2012 at 11:24 am
Gun porn: Put shooting magazines on the top shelf where they belong
Cold blooded shooting is bad enough, but turning six year olds into close range bunny shooters is beyond any civilised society. A responsible government would shoot the sport in the head once and for all. Consigning “shooting porn” to the top shelf would be a start.
By Victoria Martindale | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 6 September 2012 at 4:11 pm
Aurora, Colorado, Ramadan Mubarak, IMAX, Lord Coe
A look at the trending topics on social networking sites and search engines today, to see what we’re interested in, and why.
By Ellen E Jones | Notebook | Friday, 20 July 2012 at 12:00 am
Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and the blurry line between conservative media and the far-right
For the last few weeks online neo-Nazis have been uncomfortably close to the conservative media in a campaign to smear the dead teenager before his killer was even charged
By Frank Wiles | Notebook | Friday, 13 April 2012 at 5:41 pm
Justin Timberlake’s love of guns
Justin Timberlake reveals his love of guns and how his grandfather gave him his first one, when he was 10.
By Inside film | Film | Monday, 17 October 2011 at 1:31 pm
Ready… Aim… Fire.
The shooting in Arizona is yielding good mileage for the American 24-hour news machine. A familiar story arc is unfolding with all the features of a tragedy in 3 Acts that will keep news cycles busy for at least a few more rotations. First we had the day itself, producing hour after hour of re-hashed [...]
By Oliver Duggan | Notebook, The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 13 January 2011 at 1:43 pm
Sarah Palin, The Arizona Gunman and Individual Responsibility
On Saturday, Gabrielle Giffords, the US Democratic Representative for Arizona’s 8th District was shot in the head alongside 11 other victims, in a public attack that is occurring with growing regularity in America.
By Oliver Duggan | Notebook, The Foreign Desk | Monday, 10 January 2011 at 4:52 pm
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